The majority of your data exists as unstructured files located on file servers. Analysts predict the growth of unstructured data to continue at over 60 percent per year, and in many organizations it accounts for more than 80 percent of all data. Protecting unstructured data against loss and misuse is a vital component of your data governance program. At the same time, because of the size, organization and age of file server data, protecting it can represent the largest data loss prevent challenge you are facing.

You need to consider multiple tactics to protect NAS data. First, you need content-aware discovery to scan and find the data you have identified as sensitive. Next, in order to protect the data, you need a way to identify who owns the data - a way that does not rely on often inaccurate metadata. You also need to discover file shares that suffer from overly permissive access rights and are therefore at risk of incursion. Finally, you want to audit who is accessing sensitive data and how often they are using it.

Symantec Data Loss Prevention Data Insight can help solve the data protection problem for unstructured data by giving you insight into usage patterns and access permissions. Data Insight is part of a complete Data Loss Prevention for storage solution from Symantec that includes Symantec Data Loss Prevention Network Discover and Network Protect.